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Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-the-cheering-commence! dept.

iwoloschin and an Anonymous Coward write:

FS tells me that Ars Technica reports that Dice is selling the Slashdot and Sourceforge sites. The company in their second quarter earnings announcements stated they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business", and are planning to divest this business.

The report goes on to note that in spite of what the report calls "an incredibly loyal and passionate following of tech professionals," Slashdot and SourceForge aren't core to DHI's business and that DHI has partnered with KeyBanc Capital Markets to advise DHI on the sale. There is no buyer lined up yet.

The report also says that Slashdot Media (the aggregate of Slashdot and SourceForge) made $1.7 million in revenue for the second quarter and that it's estimated Slashdot Media will pull somewhere between $15 million and $16 million in revenue for fiscal 2015.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:08PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @04:08PM (#214915) Journal

    Yeah, see? They should have hired you to advise them, not some MBA flunky from Thunderbird. The integration of hiring in Slashdot could have been very good for everyone, but Dice sucked at it.

    I want to put down a marker here, on your comment. Soylent should do this, the way you have described. Being an active member of Soylent ought to not only give you the satisfaction of conversing with smart, opinionated people, but help you advance your day job career as well. It ought to help you find compadres for your open-source project. It ought to help your good-idea startup get off the ground. That would be kick-ass, and everybody could sign onto that.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:58PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:58PM (#214967) Journal
    Only if we could all do it as AC :)

  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:12AM

    by Common Joe (33) <common.joe.0101NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:12AM (#215209) Journal

    And while we're on the subject of improving Soylent News, I suggest this very awesome idea be presented in a way that is favorable to managers -- not recruiters and most certainly not human resources. I've been looking for a job for a long time and the single biggest hurdle I have is not being screened out by HR and recruiters who cannot understand what talents are. (Hint: It's not usually technological knowledge or experience.) Next step is to help managers understand what they're really looking at when they see a person like most of us common Joes.

    We wanted money for the site? I think we just stumbled across a way to do it. Specialize in a niche that no one seems to be able to offer.